Doctor Who fandom plagiarized
Found this story on fanfiction.net. It copies directly from at least four different stories. I've emailed polgarawolf to ask her to take the story down. She denies ever reading the stories that were copied.
The original stories:
Everyone You Know, by CherryIce.
Choices, by Lindenharp.
Emergent Properties, by Dameruth.
A Split Second, by Joolz.
Screencaps:
Aaand here's the text of all emails between myself and Polgarawolf:
4-17 from dshael
Hi.
Read your recent Doctor Who story, "10 Times the Doctor Could've Done Right by Captain Jack Harkness, After First Meeting Him Properly...& 1 Time Jack Didn't Exactly Give Him a Choice in the Matter Not to Mention the Time When the Doctor's Companions Didn't".
Good ideas, but I'm a little concerned by a few places where you seem to have copied other people's stories word for word. If you don't know how that happened, I'll be happy to provide links.
It seems like it could be a great story, but maybe you should edit those parts out? Because that's really not cool.
--sp
4-18 from polgarawolf
Erhm, hi, back.
Look, no offense, but I don't know who you are, and this is an old story that I never finished. If you'd read the author's notes and explanatory notes, you'd know that it's been sitting on my harddrive for the better part of a year, since I found out about my dad having cancer last summer (July) when I was still trying to write it and that pretty much killed my muse right then and there. I never had time to read much of anything in either the DR. WHO or the TORCHWOOD fandoms for pretty much the same reason. A friend made in comment in I think it was February about TORCHWOOD and then I watched some of the shows in March/April-ish, started writing this story in May, and quit writing in July because of Dad. Any real inclination that I had to try to be active in either of the two related fandoms pretty much met the same swift end that the story did, because to be quite honest between trying to juggle work, the hospital, doctors appointments that my mom couldn't always go to, more hospital, and every other bloody thing under the sun that comes with an unexpected cancer diagnosis, I just pretty much lost interest in it all. It's a little bit hard to maintain an interest in continuing to work on something when you find out that your father has cancer when you have the damn file open and are trying to edit it.
So. I don't know what you mean about other stories. This is the only story I ever had a chance to work on in the darn fandom(s) in question, unless you count prep work on the MCoD (which is eventually supposed to have both the Doctor and Jack in it, though even odds on whether that story ever gets finished, either, all things considered), and it's not even - crikey, I finished one part. I finished the prologue, basically. I was halfway through the first real part when I found out about my dad. So could you just - not do this, whatever it is you're trying to do, please. I've had this blasted thing on my harddrive staring at me every bloody time I get into my documetns for something like nine months and it's taken me this long to work up the tolerance to even open the file long enough to break it up into bits that could be posted on ff.net and I have no intention of doing anything else with it anytime soon, maybe not ever. I just thought that the ideas for the various story bits were something that should be shared. That maybe someone might be inspired or want to do something with them. I feel bad about dropping the damned story after spending so much time on it and becoming so invested in my Jack and Doctor(s), but I can't - I get the damned shakes and want to puke when I think about it so it's not like I can write any more of the damned thing, you know? I'm not quite that much of a masochist to try to make myself work on it more.
You want to do something with it? Is that what you're trying to ask? Because honestly, there are better ways to go about doing it, but if you want to do something with it, then by all means. Just - I can't deal with messing with this story anymore. If you don't know what it's like to have a close family member diagnosed with cancer when you've lost more people in your family to one form of another of cancer than you can count off on your fingers without running out of digits, then you have no right to act like it's unreasonable for me to not want to mess with this thing anymore and -
you know what, never the hell mind. I don't even know you and I've put this story away when I posted it and that's all there is to it and I'm not dwelling on it and -
dammit, makeup's going to run, wonderful, happy bloody Monday to me
frak it why am i still writing this
4-18 from dshael
I'm sorry this is upsetting you. But plagiarism is serious. Just take the thing down, and everyone can forget about it, right?
4-19 from polgarawolf
Listen, Lady, Mister, whatever the hell you are,
I spent six hours in a hospital last night with my dad and I am NOT in the mood for this shit. So let me make this very clear for you: THIS IS AN OLD STORY THAT HAS BEEN ON MY COMPUTER FOR MOST OF A YEAR FOR FANDOMS THAT I NEVER HAD ANY TIME TO REALLY TAKE PART IN, DUE TO MY DAD BEING OFF WORK AND IN THE HOSPITAL WHILE I WAS TRYING TO WORK FULL TIME AND WRITE SAID STORY AND THEN DAD WAS DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER AND I STOPPED WRITING IT. Is that bloody well clear enough for you?
STOP EMAILING ME.
Wish I'd saved myself the trouble. Hope you guys can do something, and sorry for the loooooong loooong post. :)
The original stories:
Everyone You Know, by CherryIce.
Choices, by Lindenharp.
Emergent Properties, by Dameruth.
A Split Second, by Joolz.
Screencaps:
Aaand here's the text of all emails between myself and Polgarawolf:
4-17 from dshael
Hi.
Read your recent Doctor Who story, "10 Times the Doctor Could've Done Right by Captain Jack Harkness, After First Meeting Him Properly...& 1 Time Jack Didn't Exactly Give Him a Choice in the Matter Not to Mention the Time When the Doctor's Companions Didn't".
Good ideas, but I'm a little concerned by a few places where you seem to have copied other people's stories word for word. If you don't know how that happened, I'll be happy to provide links.
It seems like it could be a great story, but maybe you should edit those parts out? Because that's really not cool.
--sp
4-18 from polgarawolf
Erhm, hi, back.
Look, no offense, but I don't know who you are, and this is an old story that I never finished. If you'd read the author's notes and explanatory notes, you'd know that it's been sitting on my harddrive for the better part of a year, since I found out about my dad having cancer last summer (July) when I was still trying to write it and that pretty much killed my muse right then and there. I never had time to read much of anything in either the DR. WHO or the TORCHWOOD fandoms for pretty much the same reason. A friend made in comment in I think it was February about TORCHWOOD and then I watched some of the shows in March/April-ish, started writing this story in May, and quit writing in July because of Dad. Any real inclination that I had to try to be active in either of the two related fandoms pretty much met the same swift end that the story did, because to be quite honest between trying to juggle work, the hospital, doctors appointments that my mom couldn't always go to, more hospital, and every other bloody thing under the sun that comes with an unexpected cancer diagnosis, I just pretty much lost interest in it all. It's a little bit hard to maintain an interest in continuing to work on something when you find out that your father has cancer when you have the damn file open and are trying to edit it.
So. I don't know what you mean about other stories. This is the only story I ever had a chance to work on in the darn fandom(s) in question, unless you count prep work on the MCoD (which is eventually supposed to have both the Doctor and Jack in it, though even odds on whether that story ever gets finished, either, all things considered), and it's not even - crikey, I finished one part. I finished the prologue, basically. I was halfway through the first real part when I found out about my dad. So could you just - not do this, whatever it is you're trying to do, please. I've had this blasted thing on my harddrive staring at me every bloody time I get into my documetns for something like nine months and it's taken me this long to work up the tolerance to even open the file long enough to break it up into bits that could be posted on ff.net and I have no intention of doing anything else with it anytime soon, maybe not ever. I just thought that the ideas for the various story bits were something that should be shared. That maybe someone might be inspired or want to do something with them. I feel bad about dropping the damned story after spending so much time on it and becoming so invested in my Jack and Doctor(s), but I can't - I get the damned shakes and want to puke when I think about it so it's not like I can write any more of the damned thing, you know? I'm not quite that much of a masochist to try to make myself work on it more.
You want to do something with it? Is that what you're trying to ask? Because honestly, there are better ways to go about doing it, but if you want to do something with it, then by all means. Just - I can't deal with messing with this story anymore. If you don't know what it's like to have a close family member diagnosed with cancer when you've lost more people in your family to one form of another of cancer than you can count off on your fingers without running out of digits, then you have no right to act like it's unreasonable for me to not want to mess with this thing anymore and -
you know what, never the hell mind. I don't even know you and I've put this story away when I posted it and that's all there is to it and I'm not dwelling on it and -
dammit, makeup's going to run, wonderful, happy bloody Monday to me
frak it why am i still writing this
4-18 from dshael
I'm sorry this is upsetting you. But plagiarism is serious. Just take the thing down, and everyone can forget about it, right?
4-19 from polgarawolf
Listen, Lady, Mister, whatever the hell you are,
I spent six hours in a hospital last night with my dad and I am NOT in the mood for this shit. So let me make this very clear for you: THIS IS AN OLD STORY THAT HAS BEEN ON MY COMPUTER FOR MOST OF A YEAR FOR FANDOMS THAT I NEVER HAD ANY TIME TO REALLY TAKE PART IN, DUE TO MY DAD BEING OFF WORK AND IN THE HOSPITAL WHILE I WAS TRYING TO WORK FULL TIME AND WRITE SAID STORY AND THEN DAD WAS DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER AND I STOPPED WRITING IT. Is that bloody well clear enough for you?
STOP EMAILING ME.
Wish I'd saved myself the trouble. Hope you guys can do something, and sorry for the loooooong loooong post. :)